--- On Sun, 6/5/12, JonY wrote: > From: JonY > Subject: Re: How do I build this program for Cygwin? > To: cygwin > Date: Sunday, 6 May, 2012, 23:52 >> On 5/7/2012 04:55, Marilo wrote: >> ... >> It(that GNU version) doesn't have -X proto (either), but it's nice to >> have GNU >> netcat 0.7.1 to know what it looks like.. (not too different >> from the one in cygwin!).. And now I know it can be done! > > I think that's BSD netcat. > > >
Thanks for pointing that out.. it's a great lead. This link from 2006 mentions somebody looking for openbsd's version netcat http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-04/msg00490.html " .....it's an openbsd fork off the original netcat that I never heard of before. Cool. I'll see if it builds for cygwin. cheers, DaveK " I found it here now ported to Cygwin- http://www.daemon.de/Netcat doing -? and -h , I see -X proto It needn't be in place of the current nc We've got the GNU one ported too, - mark found the modification to the "configure" file to get it running. So I use ncgnu.exe ncopenbsd.exe The author of openbsd version of nc ported to cygwin posted on here in March 2011 "OpenBSD version of netcat ported to cygwin" http://readlist.com/lists/cygwin.com/cygwin/10/50653.html But looks like adding it to the cygwin packages didn't happen. I would guess that maybe the threat of pulling the current nc, and replacing it, could be a bit of a disincentive to somebody looking to become a cygwin package maintainer of the openbsd version of the cygwin port. So maybe that's why it didn't quite happen, but that's just a guess. Anyhow since they are different versions, I suppose they could live alongside each other/ both be available. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple